{"id":704,"date":"2010-10-18T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=704"},"modified":"2010-11-08T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T15:31:10","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-nintendo-entertainment-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/704\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-nintendo-entertainment-system","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Model No. NES-001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/nes_face_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/nes_face_small.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Entertainment System Face Front Scan - 1985\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>One of the most successful consoles of all time.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo released the Nintendo Entertainment System 25 years ago today in the US.  Here&#8217;s a scan of that famous console itself.<\/p>\n<p>I first played a NES in 1986 or 1987, likely with <em>Super Mario Bros<\/em>. as my first game (as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/692\" target=\"_blank\">described here<\/a>).  What an amazing experience it was.  To say that the NES defined video gaming for my generation is almost an understatement.  From 1986-1990, the term &#8220;video game&#8221; was synonymous with &#8220;Nintendo&#8221; for kids in the US.  From their perspective, there was no other.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many kids my age, I was aware of what had come before (Atari), and that made the NES all the more amazing.  Happy 25th birthday, NES.  My generation worships you.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ Nintendo Entertainment System Console (face), circa 1985 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong>  How did you feel when you played a NES game for the first time?  Tell us when\/where it happened and describe the episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most successful consoles of all time. Nintendo released the Nintendo Entertainment System 25 years ago today in the US. Here&#8217;s a scan of that famous console itself. I first played a NES in 1986 or 1987, likely with Super Mario Bros. as my first game (as described here). What an amazing experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,22,21,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-design","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-nes-famicom","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}